Monday, February 13, 2012

Dear Michael,I wanted to ask for some help for a friend of mine. She is attending a speed-dating event at the public library. What should I do? Just kidding. She is supposed to bring her favorite or least favorite book to this event in order to make a first impression on her speed-dating partners. What book should she bring?

I understand that this is a set-up for me to promote my terrific new memoir, You’re Not Doing It Right, and that would certainly be a good choice, but I am too humble to do such a thing. Instead, I would suggest she pick something that she has actually read in the last six months that isn’t US Weekly. If the last thing she read is The Hunger Games, she should bring that. If it was Wuthering Heights, she should bring that. But if she’s worried about being judged for what she reads, then she’s an idiot. Basically what I’m saying is, your friend is an idiot.

Here's a round up of some good and some bad pictures of some generally good projects we saw this weekend:

pics of things AMcK likes:

hair in jars (Amber):

block-prints:

wheat-pasted papercut doilies (favorite):

golden animals:

tiny animals:

sticks in a room:

That's probably enough for now, yeah? Anyway: it was good, and there was also a boy covering 90s songs on acoustic guitar and some medium okay jokes. Ultimately, a good motivation (for me and 100 other people), and it got us all to cross the river.

Monday, February 6, 2012

So some of us did some art projects that will be in this (poorly named) show that opens this weekend. 8th annual "Fun-a-Day Philly" is run by the Artclash Collective and is going to showcase a bunch of month-long projects people took on.

There's gallery openings on both Friday (10th) and Saturday (11th) , but I think the one you want to go to is probably Saturday. Look forward to hair-in-jars (AR), instant photographs of favorite things (AM), postcards to strangers (me), and probably lots of other weird, or normal, but hopefully interesting projects by people you know and don't know.